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Seabiscuit
American champion thoroughbred racehorse (1933–1947)
For other uses, see Seabiscuit (disambiguation).
Seabiscuit (May 23, 1933 – May 17, 1947) was a champion thoroughbredracehorse in the United States who became the top money-winning racehorse up to the 1940s.
Seabiscuit heart size
He beat the 1937 Triple Crown winner, War Admiral, by four lengths in a two-horse special at Pimlico and was voted American Horse of the Year for 1938.
A small horse, at 15.2 hands high,[1] Seabiscuit had an inauspicious start to his racing career, winning only a quarter of his first 40 races, but became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many Americans during the Great Depression.
Seabiscuit has been the subject of numerous books and films, including Seabiscuit: the Lost Documentary (1939); the Shirley Temple film The Story of Seabiscuit (1949); a book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend (1999) by Laura Hillenbrand; and a film adaptation of Hillenbrand's book, Seabiscuit (2003), t
